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See also:BEMA (Gr./Bf771a) , in ecclesiastical See also:architecture, the semi-circular See also:recess or See also:exedra, in the See also:basilica, where the See also:judges sat, and where in after times the See also:altar was placed. It generally is roofed with a See also:half See also:dome. The seats, Bpbvoc, of the priests were against the See also:wall, looking into the See also:body of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, that of the See also:bishop being in the centre. The bema is generally ascended by steps, and railed off. Iu See also:Greece the bema was the See also:general name of any raised See also:platform. Thus the word was applied to the tribunal from which orators addressed assemblies of the citizens at See also:Athens. That in the Pnyx, where the See also:Ecclesia often met, was a See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone platform from Io to II ft. in height. Again in the Athenian See also:law See also:court counsel addressed the court from such a platform: it is not known whether each had a See also:separate bema or whether there was only one to which each counsel (? and the witnesses) in turn ascended (cf. W. See also:Wyse in his edition of See also:Isaeus, p. 440). Another bema was the platform on which stood the urns for the reception of the See also:bronze disks (l,i~74 oc) by means of which at the end of the 4th See also:century the judges recorded their decisions.
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